Rachel Scott of Diotima, known for her hand-crafted Jamaican crochet and macramé, challenges the traditional European notion of luxury at Absolutely Fabrics.
New York Fashion designers, Henry Zankov, Rachel Scott , and Christopher John Rogers. The trio's designs are now available at Absolutely Fabrics in Toronto . Absolutely Fabrics , the designer and vintage retailer, recently played host to a dinner for three independent designers from New York whose brands were new to the Toronto shop: Rachel Scott of Diotima , Christopher John Rogers of his namesake line, and Henry Zankov of his cult knitwear brand Zankov.
Before cocktail hour, I asked Scott a question that generates countless headlines, but few concrete answers: What is luxury? For me, craft and savoir-faire are really the true meaning of luxury, regardless of where they come from,” she says. “Things that are made beautifully by hand.” Scott works with artisans in her native Jamaica to hand-crochet and embellish the pieces in Diotima. In October, after just three years in business, Scott won the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award for American Womenswear Designer of the Year, the biggest award in American fashion, beating out fashion heavyweights including Marc Jacobs, Thom Browne, and Tory Burch. Rachel Scott of Diotima specializes in Jamaican crochet and macramé, which she says are undervalued crafts. A model wears a dress from the Diotima RTW Fall 2024 collection during Fashion Week in Feb. 2024. Scott specializes in Jamaican crochet and macramé, which she says are undervalued crafts compared with the work of vaunted ateliers of houses such as Chanel and Balenciaga. And with Diotima, she is challenging the perception that luxury is the exclusive domain of European fashion. “I actually don’t even know if Europe originated the idea of savoir-faire, or if they just capitalized on it,” she says. “But Europe has been very good at saying that their fashion is the most luxurious.” However, designers such as Scott working outside the European capitals are more free to make up their own rules, to define luxury in their own imag
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